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Oxfam warns of inaction on child, maternal mortality

during pregnancy and childbirth has changed little since 1990.     The figures are despite world ...   dies of childbirth-related causes. People living with HIV/AIDS has hit 1.3  million in Mozambique ... will die in pregnancy and childbirth, while the entire population of nearly 14 million is looked after ...

One in 8 Sierra Leone women die giving birth

Sierra Leone's appalling maternal health care record. One in eight women risk death during childbirth ...

Ghana: Mobile phones cut maternal deaths

during childbirth in Amensie village in south-central Ghana, according to local health officials. Health ... . Before cell phone and internet technology were introduced to Amensie, some 20 women died in childbirth each year, according to Madam Owusu.  On average 560 women die during childbirth or from pregnancy ...

Dutch government: "Say no to Female Genital Mutilation"

in childbirth. Better statistics in Africa Speaking to national and international experts ...

Press Review Wednesday 30 December 2009

or psycho-social problems. And pregnant women should be better informed about the risks of childbirth ...

Zimbabwe's healthcare slowly improving, Van Geldermalsen

such as tuberculosis. The mortality of mothers in childbirth rose from 168 in 1990 to 725 per 100,000 births in 2007 ...

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